As a catholic, I'll just drop by and say I see no major flaws in your post. Surely, there are many details that i disagree with, but you get the gist of it. What you say about religion is positive, all I hope is that you will one day understand that things you were taught to see as cruel by our anti-religious education system are actually the lesser evil of possibilities. May God bless you.

Oh yeah?! Well Religion is the best business in the World, TAX FREE!

Well done. This sums up perfectly the thread.

After all one picture is worth 1000 words....

I respect your opinion but I disagree. My goddesses are perfect.

Cherrypicking to win an internet argument? Very gentlemanly of you, specially after how condescending my post was.

Well, isn't humanity now saved? You went through insanely long and cruel brainwashing and managed to see the truth behind it all. Religious people are really stupid but you're so special that you'll never be affected by such ancient brainwashing system. All we need is  to spread your genes.

I need not to be serious to someone who has just proven unable to understand what seriousness is. Rather, I should not be.

I disagree strongly with the OP, and I feel that this thread adequately summarizes a lot of the problems in our society today.

Athiests and secularists look at religion and only focus on all of the negatives. My belief in God has saved my life (and has done the same for a lot of people whom I know) and no, it's not judgmental. Religious people spend tremendous amounts of time helping the poor and sharing their faith in God has helped a great number of people out of depression and suicide and helped them to find meaning in their lives. Faith is a beautiful thing and has compelled people like Mother Teresa and Pope St. John Paul to help change the world into a much better place.

Now I could stoop to the level of this thread and take this opportunity to point out all of the heinous things that athiests have done over the past couple of centuries, but I am not going to. I believe, like Pope Francis, that athiests can also be good people and if they seek the truth then God can and will work in their lives.

That said, I will say that this belief that religion is inherently bad could be the undoing for the western world. When you blind yourself to the benefits of a legitimate and healthy love for God and only focus on the negative radical groups, you are actually giving legitimacy to and empowering radicalism. This is part of why radical Islam has been steadily gaining ground world-wide at the expense of moderate and peaceful Christians and Muslims. The US government has blinded itself to the importance of a love-filled faith in society and because of their blindness they have gone into religious countries like Syria and Libya and empowered radical groups who then proceeded to kill all of the peaceful Christians and Muslims and thereby forced those countries far to the right. It's the same when selecting immigrants to come into Europe: Europe is now utterly incapable of distinguishing between a peaceful Muslim and a radical and are now bringing in both kinds in significant proportions and thereby destroying their society. It's all because we have blinded ourselves to religion and painted faith as this thing that we don't understand and don't want anything to do with.

You can say that Christianity or even all religion is evil and that it shouldn't be a part of our lives, but this is a falsehood and when people or society insist on believing in a falsehood they tend to do a lot of damage.

Let's cite countries that obliged their members to be atheist.

USSR, Cuba, North Korea. What else? Yup, all of them are clearly better than their stupid religious counterparts.

Yeah, and I know what would be even better. The unique and special atheist, liberal political system that you invented and the whole world awaited for your birth for it. Right?

There is a distinct difference between atheists who have committed awful evils and atheists who commit awful evils in the name of atheism. The latter, I'm sure, is largely disproportionate when compared to religions.